MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[GoRed]

Marietta 63 Wittenberg 45 with 10 minutes to go in the game.  Not the Marietta team that only beat Denison by 6 in their opener.  Pioneers have been on fire from the field and Witt has turned the ball over 18 times.

[WAlum]

Marietta over Witt 87-63.  Tigers now 1-2 on the season.

[David Collinge]

Yeah, not such a good result considering that Marietta beat Denison and Kenyon by a combined 17 points. Maybe 'Etta is just finding their Trevor-Halter-less groove. Still, can't help but be concerned about Witt at this point, especially since both Cooper and McKee are back and playing significant minutes (Cooper 0 pts on 0/6 shooting in 22 minutes, McKee 8 points in 19 minutes, four turnovers apiece).

NCAC falls to 25-15-1 in non-conference play and 5-3 vs. OAC teams (0-3 vs. Marietta, 5-0 vs. everyone else).

Conference action (at least, conference games that count) starts tomorrow:
Wooster at Kenyon
Denison at Hiram
non-conference games, including two vs. former conference members:
Baldwin-Wallace at Allegheny
Earlham at DePauw
Oberlin at Case Western Reserve
Wabash at Rose Hulman

[smedindy]

My question is if Witt is going to have another troubling season? Losing to IUF and Marietta in a manner that Witt normally treats its foes says that something may be amiss there.

Or it could be bad games against quality teams.

[smedindy]

Wabash does its part, cruising past Rose-Hulman on the road 58-44. Derek Bailey had 26 points to lead the LGs and Nick Curosh grabbed 12 boards, according to the live stats. Wabash still unbeaten, now 5-0 on the season.

[ScotsFan]

Wooster trailed by 2 at the half down in Gambier but it's been ALL Scots in the 2nd half as they now lead by 17 with eight minutes to go in the game.

[ScotsFan]

This just in.  Xavier Brown is pretty damn good!!! 

He's yet to be stopped short of 20 points in his young COW career as he's topped 20 points for the 4th straight game to start the season!  I wonder what the record is for consecutive games to start a career with 20+ points at Wooster?

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 84  Kenyon 68

Wooster had a monster 2nd half in scoring as ScotsFan noted and blew out the Lords.   Scots had 5 players in double figures with freshman Xavier Brown leading the way with 22 points, Justin Hallowell with 15 points, Josh Claytor with 13 points, Justin Warnes with 11 and Ryan Snyder also with 11.

Kenyon was led tonight by Ikenna Nwadibia with 17 points and Brian Lebowitz with 15 points.

Scots shot 59% from the floor tonight and won the rebounding battle 30 to 24.

Wooster is now 4-0.   Next game on Saturday 12/3 at Adrian (MI)

GO SCOTS!

[imderekpoe]

This just in.  Xavier Brown is pretty damn good!!! 

Can't argue with that!

He's yet to be stopped short of 20 points in his young COW career as he's topped 20 points for the 4th straight game to start the season! 

However, he did only have 18 in the opener vs Defiance, followed by 22 against Anderson, 20 at Wilmington and 22 again tonight.  Not a bad start!

[wooscotsfan]

This just in.  Xavier Brown is pretty damn good!!! 

Can't argue with that!

He's yet to be stopped short of 20 points in his young COW career as he's topped 20 points for the 4th straight game to start the season! 

However, he did only have 18 in the opener vs Defiance, followed by 22 against Anderson, 20 at Wilmington and 22 again tonight.  Not a bad start!

The great thing about Xavier is his ability to penetrate and break down the opponent's defense.

While he is averaging over 20 points per game, he is also a high percentage shooter (30 of 53 thru 4 games) for an incredibly high shooting percentage of 56.6% which is amazing for a guard!

[ScotsFan]

This just in.  Xavier Brown is pretty damn good!!! 

Can't argue with that!

He's yet to be stopped short of 20 points in his young COW career as he's topped 20 points for the 4th straight game to start the season! 

However, he did only have 18 in the opener vs Defiance, followed by 22 against Anderson, 20 at Wilmington and 22 again tonight.  Not a bad start!

Duh!  Why was I thinking he had gone over 20 in that game as well?

So much for my question about opening your career with consecutive 20 point games...    Still, 20.5 per through the first 4 games of your collegiate career ain't too shabby... 

[ScotsFan]

FYI, the game at Adrian on Saturday won't be broadcast on the interweb due to a local HS (Norwayne) playing in the state championship football game.  Us locals will be able to hear the game on AM 960.

[smedindy]

Shall we recap the evening? Let's...

Wooster 84 Kenyon 68 - as recapped above. Question is Brian Lebowitz' nickname "Fawn"? Well, it should be! Heh.

Denison 68 Hiram 46 - Big Red is emerging as a playah. Larry Farmer had 18 points and 14 boards.

Baldwin-Wallace 79 Allegheny 61 - Gators no match for the Yellow Jacket's front court.

DePauw 78 Earlham 74 - Tigers have a surprising struggle against a horrid Quakers squad. Barry Flynn leads the Tigers with 25 points and nine boards.

Case 81, Oberlin 66 - Yeomen outrebounded 45-23. Box out! 

Wabash 58 Rose Hulman 44 - Wabash surged ahead in the second half in a defensive battle.

[David Collinge]

Kenyon is not at the level where they can compete with the Woosters and Mariettas yet, but they have the makings of a pretty good squad there. Wooster clearly underestimated them in the first half, and were shocked to be trailing at the break. Keep in mind that Kenyon is practically all freshman and sophomores. Give him whatever nickname you like, Brian Lebowitz is a pretty good player. His defense is lacking, and I think Claytor/Mays should have exploited that more tonight, but he's got some nice moves for an undersized 6'6" post on the offensive end, and he can also hit fadeaway, hooks, and pull-up jumpers. In the backcourt, Ikenna Nwadibia is very difficult to guard. Ask Justin Warnes, who drew Nwadibia as his assignment tonight and gave up 17 points on 5/8 shooting (it would have been worse if Nwadibia had made his free throws.) If these sophomores and their youthful teammates have a good shooting night (like tonight, 45%) and play reasonable defense, they're going to give the conference lead pack fits. That is, unless the conference lead pack team shoots 70% in the second half like the Scots did tonight.

[David Collinge]

NCAC non-conference record: 27-17-1
vs. HCAC: 9-4
vs. OAC: 5-4
vs. UAA: 2-4